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4,5 stars; I catch myself constantly underlining quotes as the author has a way of putting his thoughts into pithy, meaningful statements; a more general observation; the author seems to rail against commodification of life per se, whether it be time
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The generic term ‘oil’ designates two very different kinds of compounds that are liquid at ambient temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Crude oils (using the proper qualifying adjective and a plural whose importance will be
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“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“When the aromatic savour of the pine goes searching into the deepest recesses of my lungs, I know it is life that is entering. I draw life in through the delicate hairs of my nostrils.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
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